NCT06868303

The Effectiveness of Mental Wellness Youth Hubs in Hong Kong

Recruiting now NA Last updated 6 June 2025

What this trial tests

NA trial testing LevelMind@JC Mental Wellness Youth Hubs in Mental Stress in 1,300 participants. Currently enrolling.

Timeline

6 May 2025

Primary endpoint
1 January 2028

1 April 2028

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	The University of Hong Kong
Phase	NA
Status	Recruiting now
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	non randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	1,300
Start date	6 May 2025
Primary completion	1 January 2028
Estimated completion	1 April 2028
Sites	1 location across Hong Kong

Drugs / interventions tested

• LevelMind@JC Mental Wellness Youth Hubs
• New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association electronic clinic for psychological service
• Integrated Community Centres for Mental Wellness
• General Practitioner
• Hub Casework

Conditions studied

• Mental Stress — all drugs for Mental Stress →

Sponsor

The University of Hong Kong

Who can join

Adults 12 to 24, any sex, with Mental Stress. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

This study sets out to evaluate (i) whether the model in phase two can improve symptoms, quality of life, functioning, and psychological outcomes in young people utilising the hub services (n = 600) compared to those in the community controls (n = 600), (ii) the mechanisms that may drive these improvements, and (iii) whether any particular subgroup(s) of youths (e.g., gender, socio-economic status, migrant status) may benefit more from this service model. The experiment group will include 600 hub users who are not currently using psychiatric medications and do not have a formal diagnosis at the time of enrolling in the hub activity. The control group will also comprise of 600 young people, recruited from a community cohort managed by the research team. The community cohort is accessible via the Youth Epidemiological Study Online platform (YES online), which recruits young people aged 12 to 24 years. Only YES online participants who are not using the service of LevelMind@JC and psychiatric medications will be recruited for this study. The two groups will be matched in age, gender, and baseline distress level measured by the 6-item Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K6). There will also be a substudy assessing the effect of four service models: NLPRA eClinic, Integrated Community Centre for Mental Wellness (ICCMW) step-up care, general practitioners, and hub casework support service on symptom-based mental health outcome, comparing a cohort of young people receiving these four services respectively. A total of 252 participants will be recrruited. Another substudy will be conducted to investigate the extent to which participation in Tier 1 activities contributes to improvements in targeted outcome areas, assessing young people (n = 675) before and after their participation of Tier 1 activities. A consecutive sampling will be used, where a subject who meets the criteria of inclusion will be selected until this required sample size is achieved.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial.